Senior Ruth team out of playoffs; finish season at 15-6

(Above) Josh Buzzell takes a swing. (Below) Ryan Logan only gave up two hits during Wachusett’s Senior
Babe Ruth team’s final game.
Steve King photos
Wachusett’s Senior Babe Ruth
League team saw its season come
to an end last Saturday when it lost
both ends of a doubleheader against
defending champion Brindley Found ations in the Paul N. Johnson Senior
Ruth championship series at Tivnan
Field. Brindley prevailed in the first
game, 9-7, and retained the upper
hand in the second, 12-2. The locals
finish with a 15-6 record. Brindley
improved to 18-5.

In the first game Brindley shattered
a 5-5 deadlock with a gamebreaking
four-run outburst in the fifth
inning. Wachusett was hurt by a lack
of hitting, swatting just 12 hits in the
two games.

Wachusett advanced to the finals
when it downed Northboro, 10-1, in a
Phillips Division playoff series
tiebreaker. This division title was
Wachusett’s first. The locals were
sparked by pitcher Ryan Logan of
Worcester State, who tossed a nifty
two-hitter. Logan scattered three hits
and allowed one run over the previous
14 innings that he pitched prior
to the championship series.

Leading Wachusett’s 15-hit
attack were Rutland’s Chris Gusha and West Boylston’s
Mark Sinabaldi. Sinabaldi had a hand in four runs, three
of which came on his game-winning, three-run homer to
right-center in the first inning. Gusha, a Worcester State
player, knocked in five runs. He had a two-run homer in
the third inning. Wachusett got two hits each from catcher
Chris Logan of Worcester State, Ryan Logan and
Wachusett Regional High School product Andy McLean.
Gusha went 4-4, Sinabaldi 2-2.

After the game, Johnson League president Ray Baltramatis
presented Wachusett coach Jim Olson the good
news that Wachusett’s Keith Bates and Billy Mullin had
been named to the Johnson League’s 16-year-old All-Star
team. Both players attend Wachusett Regional High
School.